Browser-based electronic messaging

US6212535A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Digital Equipment Corporation · US

Inventors

• Christopher Weikart · Auburn, US
• William D. Goldenthal · Cambridge, US
• Debajit Ghosh · Menlo Park, US
• Kenneth F. Alden · Boylston, US
• Brian Eberman · Newton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 19, 1996
• Grant date: Apr 3, 2001
• Expiry date: Sep 19, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/107
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In a computerized method for messaging, a Web page includes an embedded tag specifying a message extension program. The Web page is requested from a Web server by a Web browser of a first client computer connected to the Web server computer by a communications network. The extension program corresponding to the message tag is retrieved. A multimedia message is recorded as digital signals in a file of the client computer using the extension program. The file is sent to a second client computer as an electronic mail message.